Monday, December 9, 2013

Moodle Transition - SP2014


Your guide to transition Moodle courses each Semester and for preparing to teach online.


IMPORTANT SEMESTER DATES

JANUARY 10 -    Students enrolled in Moodle courses
JANUARY 13 -     First day of spring semester
JANUARY 20 -    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – no classes
MARCH 7 -     Mid-semester date, Spring Break begins at 4:30
MARCH 28 -     Last day for student-initiated withdrawal
MAY 12-16 –     Final exams
MAY 16 –     Commencement
MAY 19 –     All grades are due in the Office of Admissions and Records


TRANSITION CHECKLIST
 
EXPORT GRADES
  1.  From the main page of your course,  click Grades in the Settings  block under Course Administration.
  2. Choose the Export tab, then  Excel spreadsheet sub tab.
  3. Under Options, click the “Include Feedback in Export” check box.
  4.  Scroll down and click submit.
  5. Click Download and save the file to your computer or flash drive.  




EXPORT ATTENDANCE
  1. Access your attendance.
  2. Click on the Export tab near the top.
  3.  From the Format pull-down menu,  choose the file format you’d like the report exported in.
  4. Click on the OK button.
  5. Choose Display or Save. 


IMPORT YOUR COURSE

Before the first day of class, import content into your new course shell from a previous course, if  applicable. Directions can be found here.


UPDATE YOUR COURSE
Make appropriate updates to your course.  To update your dated activities:
  1. Turn editing on. 
  2. Click the Edit icon for the activity you wish to update.
  3. Change the availability or due date and click ‘Save and Return to Course’ at the bottom.
  4. Repeat as needed.


EMAIL NEW STUDENTS
Invite your online students into your class, using SOAR to send all of your enrolled  students an introductory email. Include your contact information and Moodle login information. View a tutorial detailing how to email your online students through SOAR.  You may utilize the Template for Emailing an Online Class provided in Instructor Resources for  this purpose. For special instructions  regarding ILCCO students, see page two  of this document.



MAKE COURSE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS
 Students will not have access to your class until you make it available to them. By default, all courses created for the spring semester will be hidden from students. Follow these steps to make the course available to students.
  1. Go into your course.
  2. Go to ‘Edit settings’ in the Settings block under Course Administration.
  3. Scroll down to the Availability section.
  4. Change the availability to “This course is available to students”, and Save Changes at the bottom. View a tutorial for changing your course availability.


OTHER INFORMATION

SVCC EXEMPLARY ONLINE COURSE CHECKLIST
Use this tool to review your online course with a colleague or IT staff. The four sections of course design can be used to help you incorpo­rate best practices in instructional strategies for online courses. http://www.svcc.edu/employ­ees/it/resources/SVCC_Exemplary_Online_Course_Checklist.pdf

STUDENT LOGIN INFORMATION
Students’ usernames are firstname.middleini­tial.lastname. For example, John Alex Smith’s username would be john.a.smith. If students do not have a middle initial in Banner it will not be part of their username. Students’ pass­words start with sv followed by the last 4 digits of their Sauk ID numbers.
For example, the Sauk ID @00001234 will have the password sv1234. Printable student login information can be found at http://www.svcc.edu/students/studentlogins.pdf.

ILCCO/ICE STUDENTS
If you receive an email from the ICE system, you have a student from other Illinois com­munity colleges in your class. This means you will need to access the ILCCO site to enter tenth day attendance, midterm grades and final grades. Let us know if you need help accessing the ILCCO site at http://ice.ilcco.net/. Please be sure to contact these students. View a tutorial detailing how to send email to the group via the ICE website. You may utilize the Moodle Email ILCCO Students Template pro­vided on the IT website.


RESOURCES & LINKS